Inside A Powerful MAGA Messaging Force

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Maggie Severns explains how the Conservative Partnership Institute helped push the Republican party further to the right and became what she calls a "clubhouse" for insurrectionists.

Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews Ethan Hawke's 6-part documentary series about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting
0:04.7	WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation.
0:11.4	This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross, a soapbox for the far right, the insurrectionist clubhouse.
0:18.3	That's how the Conservative Partnership Institute is described in an investigative article co-authored
0:23.9	by my guest Maggie Severns, a domestic policy reporter for the Startup Online Publication Grid,
0:30.4	which is about putting the news in context.
0:33.3	The CPI is little known outside Trump's circles, but according to the article,
0:38.1	it's quickly become among the most powerful messaging forces in the MAGA universe.
0:43.6	Several of its affiliated groups are headed by ex-Trump Aids.
0:47.9	One of the CPI's leaders is Mark Meadows, who is Trump's final chief of staff.
0:52.8	The CPI was founded by Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina,
0:58.0	who served in the House and Senate, was closely aligned with the Tea Party movement
1:02.2	and helped push the Republican Party further to the right.
1:05.6	He left the Senate to become president of the Conservative Think Tank, the Heritage Foundation,
1:10.6	and then known on to start CPI.
1:13.0	Maggie Severns is a former National Affairs reporter for Politico,
1:17.2	where she covered money in politics and the 2016 election.
1:21.0	We recorded our interview yesterday.
1:23.6	Maggie Severns, welcome to Fresh Air.
1:26.9	So what is the Conservative Partnership Institute CPI?
1:32.1	Yeah, the Conservative Partnership Institute, I think, is a group that really speaks
1:36.1	to the state of Trump in Washington.
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